"I didn't need a father ... what I wanted was to just see a picture of him or have a conversation," he said, adding that he was looking for answers more than anything else.

An estimated 35,000 to 60,000 babies of sperm donors are born every year, and a growing number of the children want to meet not only their donor fathers but also their half-brothers and -sisters.

The plotline is playing out across America and on the silver screen, in one of the summer's most critically acclaimed movies, "The Kids Are All Right," starring Annette Benning and Julianne Moore. It follows the lives of two kids who go in search of their sperm-donor father.

Boy's Search for Biological Siblings

Kramer's real-life journey began on "Good Morning America" in 2002 when the 12-year-old read a note he penned to his local sperm bank.

"I would like some information about my father, even a phone number," he said on "GMA."

"I felt it was my responsibility to help him get the answers he was looking for, but there was no where to look, there was no one to help us out," Wendy Kramer said. "That's why we started the DSR [Donor Sibling Registry]."

The Donor Sibling Registry is a website with 30,000 members. It unites donors, their children and their siblings, through identification numbers.

New connections are made everyday, but uniting donor families can be difficult because the federal government provides little oversight. Also, there's no tracking of the number of children a single sperm donor can have, which many men are not aware of when they donate.

"I have donors that come to my site all the time and say, 'Wait a minute, I just came to your website and I see that I have 22 children. How can this be? The sperm bank promised I would have no more than 10,'" Wendy Kramer said.

A Sperm Donor Has More Than 125 Kids

Through her registry, Wendy Kramer said, one donor learned he had more than 125 children, 70 of them younger than 7. The donor is now in contact with them.

"He says it's fine now because basically they are all on an Excel spreadsheet, but 10 years from now when they are 70 teenagers and many of them might feel like Ryan -- they just want to look into the face of the guy they share DNA with -- it's going to get really complicated," Wendy Kramer said.

Donors have no liability, financially or otherwise, but many fathers and grandparents want to know. Still, experts say, most men don't receive adequate counseling before they make a sperm donation.

"If they knew they were going to be contacted, and if they knew more than five children or 10 children would be created, many of them may not choose to donate," said therapist Patricia Mendell, who focuses on donor offspring.